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Muttiah Muralitharan
Muttiah Muralitharan
Born: 17 April 1972, Kandy
Major Teams: Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club, Lancashire, Sri Lanka.
Known As: Muttiah Muralitharan
Pronounced: Muttiah Muralitharan
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Off Break
Test Debut: Sri Lanka v Australia at Colombo (RPS), 2nd Test, 1992/93
Latest Test: Sri Lanka v Bangladesh at Colombo (PSS), 1st Test, 2002
ODI Debut: Sri Lanka v India at Colombo (RPS), 2nd ODI, 1993/94
Latest ODI: Sri Lanka v India at Colombo (RPS), ICC Champions Trophy, 2002/03
Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1999
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Career Statistics:
TESTS
(including 21/07/2002)
M I NO Runs HS Ave SR 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 76 95 37 709 67 12.22 65.95 0 1 36 0
O M R W Ave BBI 5 10 SR Econ
Bowling 4255.5 1108 10030 430 23.32 9-51 36 11 59.3 2.35
ONE-DAY INTERNATIONALS
(including 30/09/2002)
M I NO Runs HS Ave SR 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 200 91 39 302 18 5.80 67.41 0 0 86 0
O M R W Ave BBI 4w 5w SR Econ
Bowling 1802.1 118 6916 297 23.28 7-30 7 6 36.4 3.83
FIRST-CLASS
(1989/90 - 2002/03; last updated 09/11/2002)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 149 177 55 1364 67 11.18 0 1 79 0
O R W Ave BBI 5 10 SR Econ
Bowling 7028.5 16392 838 19.56 9-51 73 23 50.3 2.33
LIST A LIMITED OVERS
(1991/92 - 2002/03; last updated 09/11/2002)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 254 113 47 420 18 6.36 0 0 102 0
O R W Ave BBI 4w 5w SR Econ
Bowling 2277.3 8425 376 22.40 7-30 9 7 36.9 3.68
- Explanations of First-Class and List A status courtesy of the ACS.
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Profile:
Muttiah Muralitharan was born in Kandy. His father, Muttiah Sinnasamy, ran a
successful confectionary business and Muralitharan is the eldest of four
sons. When he was nine years old he was sent to St Anthony's College, a
private school run by Benedictine monks and styled upon Ampleforth College
in England. He began his cricketing career as a medium pace bowler, but on
the advice of his school coach, Sunil Fernando, he took up off spin when he
was fourteen years old. He soon impressed and went on to play for four years
in the school First XI. In those days he played as an all rounder and batted
in the middle order. In his final two seasons at St Anthony's he took over
one hundred wickets and in 1990/1 was named as the 'Bata Schoolboy Cricketer
of the Year. He joined Tamil Union and was selected for the Sri Lanka A
tour of England in 1991. He played in five games but failed to capture a
single wicket. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack records: "Muttiah Muralitharan
[found] pitches generally unsympathetic to his slow turn. However, at 19 he
was very much a novice with time to learn the skills of his trade." On his
return to Sri Lanka he impressed against Allan Border's Australian team in a
practice game and then went on to make his test debut at Premadasa
International Stadium in the Second Test Match of the series. During the
early years he rarely played one-day cricket. During the 1995/6 tour of
Australia he was no balled twice for bowling with a suspect action, first by
Darrel Hair in Melbourne, and then by Ross Emerson in Brisbane. The
controversy threatened his career, but analysis carried out by Darryl
Foster, a renowned bio-mechanist, and by the University of Hong Kong proved
sufficient for the ICC and his action was cleared. However, it was not the
end of his problems as Ross Emerson called him again in Adelaide during Sri
Lanka's 1999 tour of Australia. Muralitharan claims that the controversy,
although distressing, went on to make him a stronger person and ultimately a
better bowler. He grew in confidence after 1996 and started to unveil
greater variations as a bowler. He now bowls three stock deliveries - the
off spinner, top spinner, and floater, which moves away from the
right-hander. He also admits to be working on a "mystery" ball in the nets
that is designed to hurry onto the batsmen like a leg-spinner's flipper.
Muralitharan has also spent two successful seasons with Lancashire, in 1999
after the World Cup when he took an astonishing 66 wickets in just six games
and in 2001 when he took 50 wickets in seven matches. In January 2002 he
became the youngest bowler at 29 to reach the 400-wicket mark and the
quickest in terms of matches played. He has taken 10 wickets in a game on a
record ten occasions.(30.04.2002)
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